banerjee: Mamata Banerjee convenes the party’s 1st national working committee after welcoming elderly people
“Trinamool Congress President Mamata Banerjee will chair the first meeting of the newly constituted National Working Committee on February 18 at her residence in Kalighat. last week. The names of the candidates will be decided and all the names will be sent to the Election Commission of India (ECI) by March as per rule. The Trinamool Congress has already informed the ECI of the election of Mamata Banerjee as the new president,” Trinamool sources told ET.
Apart from Banerjee, the new NWC will have 19 other members including former Finance Minister Amit Mitra, Partha Chatterjee, Subrata Bakshi, MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Abhishek Banerjee, Yashwant Singh, Trinamool Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, MLA Moloy Ghatak, Anubrata Mondal and Goutam Deb. All senior positions at the national level were dissolved at the last meeting.
With the Trinamool Congress having won all four municipal bodies on Monday, Banerjee is expected to nominate candidates for mayor of Bidhannagar, Asansol and Chandannagar, where the party recorded a landslide victory, party sources told ET. Banerjee has already appointed Goutam Deb as Mayor of Siliguri Municipality, during his North Bengal tour.
Banerjee had called a meeting on February 12 to ease tensions between Trinamool’s top executives and his nephew Abhishek Banerjee. The party faced protests over the publication of two lists of candidates for 108 seats in the municipal elections and controversy over Abhishek’s “one position, one person” remark, which was seen as a direct attack on senior leaders, as many of them have taken on multiple responsibilities.
